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Law dean denies charge of unequal opportunity
A member of the cast of the Living Theatre is crucified during the
first act of "Frankenstein," presented Tuesday and Wednesday in Bovard. Living Theatre presentations continue through Sunday.
Photo by Bob Markel
REVIEW
'Frankenstein’ challanges kidneys
By LIN FARLEY
If the Living Theatre’s performance of “Frankenstein” gobbled up Los Angeles—as the LA Free Press urged it might in last Thursday’s headline—it has to have been the quietest masticatory orgy in the history of our species.
This vanguard of total-involvement-theater had already sent a few more unwilling viewers home to the telly by the opening of the third act, when many in the audience failed to return to their seats.
As it turned out, they didn’t miss much. The entire third act of “Frankenstein” is devoted to a supposedly emotion-packed statement against imprisonment. To achieve this end, members of the cast dispersed themselves among the audience in Bovard Auditorium and were uncovered by a flashlight beam in the hands of other cast members, who then arrested their fellow players and escorted them to the stage.
Once on stage, the “prisoners” filed into cells which were split three to a row and layered into three tiers. When a new prisoner was admitted to the first cell at the shrill of a whistle, the inmates advanced one cell forward and almost simultaneously went into a highly individual acting-out of personality disintegration. If you have ever visited the psychotic ward of a mental hospital, you will be able to catch the flavor of the performances.
So maybe we need to see this. But the crucial question is how involved was the audience? Were people thinking about the lateness of the hour or were they being swept close to the bosom of radioalism? Were they mesmerized? Were they even touched?
I think an unqualified no, can be the only truthful answer. If the Living Theatre wants to be radical, why not shine that flashlight on real members of the audience, drag them on stage and fingerprint them. That is where the path to involvement lies.
As it was done, it was a stupendous farce and inestimably boring to sit through nearly 30 minutes of utter sham as the cast members went through their act. However, I did have to admire their ability to delude themselves into thinking this was involvement. The only other comparable ability for delusion might be found in the Community Relations Department of our local police department.
In view of this, it seems strange that comparisons to “Hair” have allowed the Living Theatre to walk off with all the plaudits. There were many predictions, for instance, that the Living Theater would lodge in the gullets of the audience like some, huge indigestible lump, while “Hair” went down smooth and viewers left humming its songs.
But “Hair” has succeeded like the Living Theatre never will. In the first place, “Hair” was a lot of things, but it wasn’t boring. And in the second place, it did have impact. My own escort cried at “What a Piece of Work Is Man,” and a lot of other people had to force down a huge gulp when Claude emerged in sterile, Army garb.
Trumpeted as radical or not, “Hair” reached out for you and me and everyone who saw it, and a lot of people were caught up in its irresistible appeal. Who before “Hair” dared to turn the proscenium into a giant, rocking and laughing happening of involvement?
Then along comes the Living Theatre, an exercise in futility, a gasping, inchoate mass of animal sounds. Let’s go back to pro-consul man and pre-man and start all over again.
Is this pure reaction? Only time will tell. But I refuse to believe Dada bored people. On the contrary he aroused them. Whether that arousal took the form of violent espousal or militant hate, something happened. Surrealism gave you a good clout, even if you didn’t apprehend it.
But the Living Theatre neither clouts nor inflames. It just streatches beyond the limits of present human endurance and fades without much of an imprint. And the real irony is there can be no doubt the cast members inbue their performances with everything they have to give.
Beads of sweat turned into rivulets across their backs as the artful lighting lit up their heaving bodies, but to what purpose. The staging, lighting and sets are as creative and imaginative as have appeared on any stage in this city for a long time, but what do they help convey? In a word, futility. And nihilsm went out with Sartre.
If you like nude men, you might dig the Living Theatre, so don’t let the content get in the way. On the other hand, if it’s contempt you‘re after, stay home and read Nietzsche—he has a whole lot more impact.
By STEVE BOLINGER
Jerry Wiley, assistant dean of the Law Center, said yesterday that the Mexican-American students who said the Law School refused to guarantee equal educational opportunity to them, acted on misinformation, Wiley said, the students’ charges were made at a press conference Tuesday.
“As I understand, they are wrong about the number of Mexican-American students we have here,” Wiley said. “I don’t know where they got the number three.” He was referring to a complaint by the students that out of the 300 students enrolled at the Law Center only three are Mexican-American.
“We don’t know who are Mexican-American students when they come,” he continued. “We don’t require an interview with every student who applies, we don’t sit down and ask him if he is a Mexican-American. The only way we could tell would be by the surname.
“They want all these people admitted on full scholarships,” he said. “The issue is, can a private educational institution come up with the funds to put students through school?”
Wiley is concerned about the problems the dissident students have refused to look at, including the financing problems of a private institution.
“We receive no tax money from the state,” Wiley said. “We have to depend on tuition. The majority of our students pay their own tuition and the majority of the scholarship money now goes to minority students.
“We will admit any student who meets our criteria, black, white, brown, red or green. But financing is another thing.”
Wiley also pointed to the students’ possible misinformation concerning a federal grant.
“They think the Law Center is getting a lot of money from the federal government, and this is not true,” Wiley said. “We do have a $1,000,000 grant but it is for building only. We can’t use any of that money for educational purposes. Every bit of it must go for mortar and stone and we must match it $2 to $1 just to get the grant. We receive no money for scholarships.”
University of Southern California
MAUK CASE NOT JUDGED
Despite what was reported in the Daily Trojan, there was no ruling given yesterday on the case of Bill Mauk, ASSC president, who is charged with stealing dorm cards.
The verdict on Mauk's act of civil disobedience will be reached some time this week.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1969, VOL. LX, NO. 80
Ward demands more power for mayor
By PAUL KLEIN
The mayor of Los Angeles should have complete control over the entire activity of the city, said mayoral candidate Baxter Ward in a Great Issues Forum speech yesterday.
“The charter of the City of Los Angeles gives the mayor complete supervision of city government,” Ward said. “As it stands now, this supervision is definitely lacking.”
Ward, a former television news director and commentator for KABC, said he felt the city’s problems could not be solved in the first month.
However, as part of his “personal involvement program,” with the city’s citizens, Ward, if elected, said he will concentrate his immediate efforts in five major areas: zoning, East Los Angeles, Pacoima and Watts, the Airport Commission, the Traffic Commission, (including the smog problem) and the Palmdale Airport.
With respect to zoning, Ward said he would institute a veto power by the mayor over the Zoning Commission.
“The mayor should exercise as much influence as possible in this area,” Ward said.
On the subject of urban renewal, Ward said, relocation must be done with a heart. He was referring to a plan that would give residents of an area scheduled to be demolished a chance to remain in that area during urban renewal.
“I would establish a hospitality house to serve as a residence while a family’s home was being renovated,” Ward said. The plan would eliminate the tremendous inconvenience of moving and resetting often associated with urban renewal.
“I think a candidate should bring himself to an activity if he is serious about solving it.”
In East Los Angeles and Pacoima, Ward said he would establish regular informal visits to those communities’ citizens, bringing along with him the head of a local department. These men would include the police chief or the head of the Deparment of Water and Power, for example.
New committee meets to hear student grievances
The newly-formed Student Grievance Committee met for the first time yesterday to discuss the gripes presented by students at Tuesday’s bitch-in.
Creation of the committee was announced during the bitch-in, which was sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness as a means for students to express their opinions about campus life.
It will meet again at noon Wednesday. Representatives from both the faculty and the administration are expected to address the students. Faculty salaries is scheduled to be the topic of inquiry.
The meeting is open to students, faculty and administrators.
The committee plans to meet twice each week to discuss campus issues; and organizers of the bitch-in hope to hold regular rallies at the corner of University Avenue and Childs Way.
Among the problems which the Grievance Committee hopes to investigate and take action on are the policy of in loco parentis, the academic credibility of the ROTC program, faculty salaries, the University Senate, racism both in housing and in the classrooms, the Daily Trojan and the Board of Trustees. They also plan to support investigations into the obtaining of a grant for the study of university governments.
Jeff Elliot, an independant representative on the ASSC Executive Council, acted as chairman of yesterday’s meeting. Among those present was Paul Bloland, dean of students.
'Hoot/ play, dance set for weekend
Entertainment on campus this weekend will feature a “Cat Hoot” at the Cheshire Cat tonight, continuing performances of the Living Theatre in Bovard, and dances presented by Birnkrant and the Chinese Trojan Club.
The main attraction at the “Hoot” will be Linda Perhacs, a Cheshire Cat discovery who writes and sings her own songs. Also appearing will be Gordon Meirkawa, a regular Cat performer, and a new singing group, Charlies and Kendra.
There will be a “Hoot” contest in which anyone may participate. The show will begin at 8:30, and admission is 25 cents.
The Living Theatre will continue its plays throughout the weekend. “Paradise Now” will be featured tonight, with “Mysteries” on Saturday and “Paradise Now” again on Sunday. The plays will be presented in Bovard, beginning at 8:30 p.m.
The Chinese Trojan Club will sponsor a dance tonight beginning at 9 in the YWCA. Music will be provided by the new Soul Spectrum and The Pride. Donation is $1.50 in advance and $2 at the door. For ticket information, call 748-0511.
The WHA and MHA will present a dance in the dining room of Birnkrant on Sunday evening from 8 to midnight, featuring the Five O’clock World.

Law dean denies charge of unequal opportunity
A member of the cast of the Living Theatre is crucified during the
first act of "Frankenstein," presented Tuesday and Wednesday in Bovard. Living Theatre presentations continue through Sunday.
Photo by Bob Markel
REVIEW
'Frankenstein’ challanges kidneys
By LIN FARLEY
If the Living Theatre’s performance of “Frankenstein” gobbled up Los Angeles—as the LA Free Press urged it might in last Thursday’s headline—it has to have been the quietest masticatory orgy in the history of our species.
This vanguard of total-involvement-theater had already sent a few more unwilling viewers home to the telly by the opening of the third act, when many in the audience failed to return to their seats.
As it turned out, they didn’t miss much. The entire third act of “Frankenstein” is devoted to a supposedly emotion-packed statement against imprisonment. To achieve this end, members of the cast dispersed themselves among the audience in Bovard Auditorium and were uncovered by a flashlight beam in the hands of other cast members, who then arrested their fellow players and escorted them to the stage.
Once on stage, the “prisoners” filed into cells which were split three to a row and layered into three tiers. When a new prisoner was admitted to the first cell at the shrill of a whistle, the inmates advanced one cell forward and almost simultaneously went into a highly individual acting-out of personality disintegration. If you have ever visited the psychotic ward of a mental hospital, you will be able to catch the flavor of the performances.
So maybe we need to see this. But the crucial question is how involved was the audience? Were people thinking about the lateness of the hour or were they being swept close to the bosom of radioalism? Were they mesmerized? Were they even touched?
I think an unqualified no, can be the only truthful answer. If the Living Theatre wants to be radical, why not shine that flashlight on real members of the audience, drag them on stage and fingerprint them. That is where the path to involvement lies.
As it was done, it was a stupendous farce and inestimably boring to sit through nearly 30 minutes of utter sham as the cast members went through their act. However, I did have to admire their ability to delude themselves into thinking this was involvement. The only other comparable ability for delusion might be found in the Community Relations Department of our local police department.
In view of this, it seems strange that comparisons to “Hair” have allowed the Living Theatre to walk off with all the plaudits. There were many predictions, for instance, that the Living Theater would lodge in the gullets of the audience like some, huge indigestible lump, while “Hair” went down smooth and viewers left humming its songs.
But “Hair” has succeeded like the Living Theatre never will. In the first place, “Hair” was a lot of things, but it wasn’t boring. And in the second place, it did have impact. My own escort cried at “What a Piece of Work Is Man,” and a lot of other people had to force down a huge gulp when Claude emerged in sterile, Army garb.
Trumpeted as radical or not, “Hair” reached out for you and me and everyone who saw it, and a lot of people were caught up in its irresistible appeal. Who before “Hair” dared to turn the proscenium into a giant, rocking and laughing happening of involvement?
Then along comes the Living Theatre, an exercise in futility, a gasping, inchoate mass of animal sounds. Let’s go back to pro-consul man and pre-man and start all over again.
Is this pure reaction? Only time will tell. But I refuse to believe Dada bored people. On the contrary he aroused them. Whether that arousal took the form of violent espousal or militant hate, something happened. Surrealism gave you a good clout, even if you didn’t apprehend it.
But the Living Theatre neither clouts nor inflames. It just streatches beyond the limits of present human endurance and fades without much of an imprint. And the real irony is there can be no doubt the cast members inbue their performances with everything they have to give.
Beads of sweat turned into rivulets across their backs as the artful lighting lit up their heaving bodies, but to what purpose. The staging, lighting and sets are as creative and imaginative as have appeared on any stage in this city for a long time, but what do they help convey? In a word, futility. And nihilsm went out with Sartre.
If you like nude men, you might dig the Living Theatre, so don’t let the content get in the way. On the other hand, if it’s contempt you‘re after, stay home and read Nietzsche—he has a whole lot more impact.
By STEVE BOLINGER
Jerry Wiley, assistant dean of the Law Center, said yesterday that the Mexican-American students who said the Law School refused to guarantee equal educational opportunity to them, acted on misinformation, Wiley said, the students’ charges were made at a press conference Tuesday.
“As I understand, they are wrong about the number of Mexican-American students we have here,” Wiley said. “I don’t know where they got the number three.” He was referring to a complaint by the students that out of the 300 students enrolled at the Law Center only three are Mexican-American.
“We don’t know who are Mexican-American students when they come,” he continued. “We don’t require an interview with every student who applies, we don’t sit down and ask him if he is a Mexican-American. The only way we could tell would be by the surname.
“They want all these people admitted on full scholarships,” he said. “The issue is, can a private educational institution come up with the funds to put students through school?”
Wiley is concerned about the problems the dissident students have refused to look at, including the financing problems of a private institution.
“We receive no tax money from the state,” Wiley said. “We have to depend on tuition. The majority of our students pay their own tuition and the majority of the scholarship money now goes to minority students.
“We will admit any student who meets our criteria, black, white, brown, red or green. But financing is another thing.”
Wiley also pointed to the students’ possible misinformation concerning a federal grant.
“They think the Law Center is getting a lot of money from the federal government, and this is not true,” Wiley said. “We do have a $1,000,000 grant but it is for building only. We can’t use any of that money for educational purposes. Every bit of it must go for mortar and stone and we must match it $2 to $1 just to get the grant. We receive no money for scholarships.”
University of Southern California
MAUK CASE NOT JUDGED
Despite what was reported in the Daily Trojan, there was no ruling given yesterday on the case of Bill Mauk, ASSC president, who is charged with stealing dorm cards.
The verdict on Mauk's act of civil disobedience will be reached some time this week.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1969, VOL. LX, NO. 80
Ward demands more power for mayor
By PAUL KLEIN
The mayor of Los Angeles should have complete control over the entire activity of the city, said mayoral candidate Baxter Ward in a Great Issues Forum speech yesterday.
“The charter of the City of Los Angeles gives the mayor complete supervision of city government,” Ward said. “As it stands now, this supervision is definitely lacking.”
Ward, a former television news director and commentator for KABC, said he felt the city’s problems could not be solved in the first month.
However, as part of his “personal involvement program,” with the city’s citizens, Ward, if elected, said he will concentrate his immediate efforts in five major areas: zoning, East Los Angeles, Pacoima and Watts, the Airport Commission, the Traffic Commission, (including the smog problem) and the Palmdale Airport.
With respect to zoning, Ward said he would institute a veto power by the mayor over the Zoning Commission.
“The mayor should exercise as much influence as possible in this area,” Ward said.
On the subject of urban renewal, Ward said, relocation must be done with a heart. He was referring to a plan that would give residents of an area scheduled to be demolished a chance to remain in that area during urban renewal.
“I would establish a hospitality house to serve as a residence while a family’s home was being renovated,” Ward said. The plan would eliminate the tremendous inconvenience of moving and resetting often associated with urban renewal.
“I think a candidate should bring himself to an activity if he is serious about solving it.”
In East Los Angeles and Pacoima, Ward said he would establish regular informal visits to those communities’ citizens, bringing along with him the head of a local department. These men would include the police chief or the head of the Deparment of Water and Power, for example.
New committee meets to hear student grievances
The newly-formed Student Grievance Committee met for the first time yesterday to discuss the gripes presented by students at Tuesday’s bitch-in.
Creation of the committee was announced during the bitch-in, which was sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness as a means for students to express their opinions about campus life.
It will meet again at noon Wednesday. Representatives from both the faculty and the administration are expected to address the students. Faculty salaries is scheduled to be the topic of inquiry.
The meeting is open to students, faculty and administrators.
The committee plans to meet twice each week to discuss campus issues; and organizers of the bitch-in hope to hold regular rallies at the corner of University Avenue and Childs Way.
Among the problems which the Grievance Committee hopes to investigate and take action on are the policy of in loco parentis, the academic credibility of the ROTC program, faculty salaries, the University Senate, racism both in housing and in the classrooms, the Daily Trojan and the Board of Trustees. They also plan to support investigations into the obtaining of a grant for the study of university governments.
Jeff Elliot, an independant representative on the ASSC Executive Council, acted as chairman of yesterday’s meeting. Among those present was Paul Bloland, dean of students.
'Hoot/ play, dance set for weekend
Entertainment on campus this weekend will feature a “Cat Hoot” at the Cheshire Cat tonight, continuing performances of the Living Theatre in Bovard, and dances presented by Birnkrant and the Chinese Trojan Club.
The main attraction at the “Hoot” will be Linda Perhacs, a Cheshire Cat discovery who writes and sings her own songs. Also appearing will be Gordon Meirkawa, a regular Cat performer, and a new singing group, Charlies and Kendra.
There will be a “Hoot” contest in which anyone may participate. The show will begin at 8:30, and admission is 25 cents.
The Living Theatre will continue its plays throughout the weekend. “Paradise Now” will be featured tonight, with “Mysteries” on Saturday and “Paradise Now” again on Sunday. The plays will be presented in Bovard, beginning at 8:30 p.m.
The Chinese Trojan Club will sponsor a dance tonight beginning at 9 in the YWCA. Music will be provided by the new Soul Spectrum and The Pride. Donation is $1.50 in advance and $2 at the door. For ticket information, call 748-0511.
The WHA and MHA will present a dance in the dining room of Birnkrant on Sunday evening from 8 to midnight, featuring the Five O’clock World.